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Riddle me dis? Is it me or dces Toots sound like
rasta version
"~
of James Brown on "Funky Kingston"
James
"the hardest-
Get a
{
working man in show business'
Toots' passion and raw energy
on this track certainly is worthy of an honorable mention:
In fact,
this entire recording never lets up (or lets the listener down)
Competitive
How can
recording express
much pain and
simultaneously? From the opening riffs
'Time Tough" t0 the
urgency of
Pressure Drop'
(Pressure got da drop on you) to the
Edge
drunk-sounding closing song "Sailing On" , this offering is packed
full of great songs and proves itself to be among reggae'
essential recordings_
Even an adaptation of
dopey original
song like
Country Road" (Almost Heaven West Jamaica) and
Harvard
Funky Kingston
cover of the unintelligible "Louie_
Louie'
work to enhance this
Toots & The Maytals
recording: Today
happy dayl Anyone who wants
Revieess
SUBSCRIBE TODAY
(1975)
introduced
great reggae music should acquire Funky Kingston.
mhollisco (233reviews)
Follow Sonemic on;
2020 in =
Nutshell: Brutalism
year displaced by the standstill of COVID , anxiety; and
Features
existentialist mundanity; no record helps to emphasize these
feelings more than this debut album by Sprain. And while people
throw the complaint that this debut's techniques and sounds
Sonemic Interview: Luke Rowell (Eyeliner
are swimming in obvious influences, reflective of the essential
bands of Post-Rock and Slowcore, it's how this band ties these
Disasteradio)
sounds together makes the record something masterful,
monolithic, and expansive, all while still "angular;, cold
and
sterile" (as the band calls their music in their Overblown
interview)_
some cases_
don't hear the influences
Sonemic Selects: Instrumental Focus
As Lost Through
contemporary reviews speak of, such as on the track Everything
Collision
where, if anything; Im reminded of the sounds of Sunn O))) and
Shacs
Sprain
Swans, with its repetitive dissonant guitars, and the droning
{2020)
searing walls
feedback, elements of Black Metal bleed through
on the beginning portion of Worship House
and there are even
Sonemic Selects: Industrial Hip Hop
sounds reminiscent of Krzysztof Penderecki in My Way Ours explosive latter half. The
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